Coronavirus good news thread

swordtrombonefish said:
Cambridge University unveils revolutionary coronavirus test that takes just 4 hours

https://thetab.com/uk/cambridge/202...ronavirus-test-that-takes-just-4-hours-135353
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It is good news as far as the UK goes but I wonder why everybody has to insist on developing their own tests separately. The Chinese have been using a test that gives results in four hours for some time now - it's one of the reasons they were able to get on top of things the way they did. People would come in with symptoms and within a few hours they would either be sent home with a clean bill of health or in an isolation facility, with contact tracing started for everyone they'd been in contact with.

Inside China’s All-Out War on the Coronavirus

Why could we not have just adopted their testing methodology?
 
The most positive news at present is the effectiveness of the BCG vaccination that was stopped in 2005. Several studies now all showing a strong correlation in strengthened immunity.
 
1. Crime is down ( I saw one report which said 20 per cent , I would have expected more)

2. people discovering exercise for the first time, with one chance a day to exercise I bet lots of people come out of this and continue a new form of exercise they may not have done before.

3. spending time with your kids, family, all those workaholics who maybe don’t spend enough time with their kids now getting the change to spend some quality time together!

4. DIY, I don’t know about you but I’m running out of chores around the house!

5. self Development - a chance to do all those things you have put off ~ I’ve managed a couple of online courses, no great shakes but I don’t think I would have done them without this time.

6. kindness - over 750k volunteers, a country where neighbours are checking in each other’s well being more than usual - long may it continue!!

I appreciate being locked up at home is horrible for some but it is a chance to thrive for others, make the most of it as hopefully it won’t happen again in our lifetimes!
 
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Huge unprecedented drug trials going on in the UK, hoping to basically condense months of trial data into a matter of weeks.

‘Peter Horby, professor of infectious diseases at the University of Oxford, who is leading the project, said no controlled clinical trial — in which people are assigned at random to receive different drugs and the results compared — had ever expanded so quickly and on such a large scale.’


https://www.ft.com/content/f4e3055e-72e2-459d-ba66-05af7d2c8915
 
Lots of very intelligent scientists on this planet
FabioPorkpie said:
Huge unprecedented drug trials going on in the UK, hoping to basically condense months of trial data into a matter of weeks.

‘Peter Horby, professor of infectious diseases at the University of Oxford, who is leading the project, said no controlled clinical trial — in which people are assigned at random to receive different drugs and the results compared — had ever expanded so quickly and on such a large scale.’


https://www.ft.com/content/f4e3055e-72e2-459d-ba66-05af7d2c8915
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Article is stuck behind a pay wall unfortunately.
 
“ 4. DIY, I don’t know about you but I’m running out of chores around the house!” - not when you’re as good at procrastinating as me you don’t 🤣




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RandySavage said:
Lots of very intelligent scientists on this planet

Article is stuck behind a pay wall unfortunately.
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Strange, as I found it through google and it opened without subscription.
I’ll try again -


Edit - still didn’t work.
For anyone interested, if you type ‘Oxford recruits 2700’ into google, it should be the first story that comes up, in the FT, and should open without the need to register
 
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